And people wonder why I refuse to step 1cm into the USA if there are any other options.

[theweaselking]

Alleged child soldier and US torture victim, who "confessed" at the age of 15 (when he was threatened with being raped to death if he didn't confess by a currently-disgraced and dishonourably-discharged-for-exactly-this "interrogator"), told that his coerced-under-threat-of-torture-and-murder confession is admissible in US court.

Comments

[jaundicedaye.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if Canada decides to totally shred their extradition agreements with us.

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

Canada is extremely unlikely to do this under the current administration as long as the kittens continue to flow.

[maelorin]

you have kittens!

[faeriemuriel.livejournal.com]

Now I'm not totally familiar with how the law works, but if he was 15 in a suburb and shot someone, then was tried at the age of 23, wouldn't life imprisonment probably not be on the table when stuff like abuse in the background is evident?

[spondee.livejournal.com]

But he's a TER-RIST! He's BAAAAAAD!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jeremiad/]

He's also brown, and brown people are natural born killers, don'cha know?

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Man, I thought EVERYONE knew that.

[spondee.livejournal.com]

I's scairt of the brown.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I couldn't read that, I was hiding from your icon.

[maelorin]

this ain't law like you're used to ...

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

There are no words. Seriously I have no way to express how utterly wrong it is. The English language simply doesn't have the tools to address such whatthefuckery

[maelorin]

yes it does.

just not in polite company ;)

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Last I checked, that's not where we are. This is the interwebz. It has it's own rules.

[maelorin]

oh yeah ... the intertubes ...

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I just love the part where we invaded the country, and anyone who fought back is somehow considered a criminal. The whole thing is a huge clusterfuck. I never expected Obama to get much done legislatively, unlike him, I've been in DC long enough to know how the place works, but god damn it he could reverse this Bush wrought bullshit with the stroke of a pen, and still won't fucking do it.

[maelorin]

'could' is a gulf away from 'can'.

he's neck deep in a political wonderland that puts him in corners most of us only ever see in the movies.

'compromise' is politispeak for 'you're fucked either way, so pick the fucking you dislike the least ...'

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

I think that every time I see a fresh young face rise high in politics. They think they can change things, they reach where they think they can... and find out why they can't change anything either.

[maelorin]

i've seen exactly that more than a few times over the past, oh, two decades ... *sigh*

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

"See how evil al Qaida is, using child soldiers?"
Ya, it's pretty ugly when kids are involved in the horrors of war. So what are we doing for this poor kid?
"Enhanced interogation to see if he knows anything..."
He's 15... I doubt he's rubbing elbows with the upper echelons.
"...and then we'll try him as a war criminal!"
Don't you mean victim of war crime? Seeing as he was a child soldier, Geneva conventions, all of that?
"Can't hear you! Setting up military tribunal!